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PHILOSOPHY

OPTIONAL FOUNDATION
for CSE 2023
By Vishwajeet Sir (Ex – IAAS)

Features
£ Total 100 Lectures
£ Running notes in class for immediate revision
£ Exhaustive Printed notes
£ Regular focus on answer writing (Daily answer writing in class + “Mini
Test” after end of every thinker)
£ 4 Sectional tests during the course with proper evaluation and video
discussion at the end of every section
£ Post Prelims – Crash Course and Test Series included
£ All in one package – Understanding, Revision, Answer Writing, Test
Series, Mentoring
£ Rigorous and Interesting way of teaching
£ 5 days a week lectures with ample room for simultaneous revision
£ Personal sessions with the teacher for doubt clearing when required

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Philosophy Syllabus
PAPER-I

Section A - History and Problems of Philosophy


1. Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation;
Actuality and Potentiality.
2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz): Cartesian Method and
Certain Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism;
Determinism and Freedom.
3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume): Theory of Knowledge; Substance
and Qualities; Self and God; Scepticism.
4. Kant: Possibility of Synthetic a priori Judgments; Space and Time;
Categories; Ideas of Reason; Antinomies; Critique of Proofs for the
Existence of God
5. Hegel: Dialectical Method; Absolute Idealism
6. Moore, Russell, and Early Wittgenstein: Defence of Commonsense;
Refutation of Idealism; Logical Atomism; Logical Constructions;
Incomplete Symbols; Picture Theory of Meaning; Saying and Showing.
7. Logical Positivism: Verification Theory of Meaning; Rejection of
Metaphysics; Linguistic Theory of Necessary Propositions.
8. Later Wittgenstein: Meaning and Use; Language-games; Critique of
Private Language.
9. Phenomenology (Husserl): Method; Theory of Essences; Avoidance of
Psychologism.
10. Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger): Existence and
Essence; Choice, Responsibility and Authentic Existence; Being-in-the
–world and Temporality.
11. Quine and Strawson: Critique of Empiricism; Theory of Basic Particulars
and Persons.

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Philosophy Syllabus
PAPER-I

Section B - Indian Philosophy


1. Ca-rva-ka: Theory of Knowledge; Rejection of Transcendent Entities.
2. Jainism: Theory of Reality; Saptabhan(ginaya; Bondage and Liberation.
3. Schools of Buddhism: Prati-tyasamutpa-da; Ksanikavada, Naira-
tmyava-da
4. Nya-ya- Vais'esika: Theory of Categories; Theory of Appearance;
Theory of Prama-na; Self, Liberation; God; Proofs for the Existence of
God; Theory of Causation; Atomistic Theory of Creation.
5. Sa-mkhya: Prakrti; Purusa; Causation; Liberation
6. Yoga: Citta; Cittavrtti; Klesas; Samadhi; Kaivalya.
7. Mima-msa-: Theory of Knowledge
8. Schools of Veda-nta: Brahman; I-s'vara; A-tman; Jiva; Jagat; Ma-ya-;
Avidya-; Adhya-sa; Moksa; Aprthaksiddhi; Pancavidhabheda
9. Aurobindo: Evolution, Involution; Integral Yoga.

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Philosophy Syllabus
PAPER-II

Section A - Socio-Political Philosophy


1. Social and Political Ideals: Equality, Justice, Liberty.
2. Sovereignty: Austin, Bodin, Laski, Kautilya.
3. Individual and State: Rights; Duties and Accountability
4. Forms of Government: Monarchy; Theocracy and Democracy.
5. Political Ideologies: Anarchism; Marxism and Socialism
6. Humanism: Secularism; Multiculturalism.
7. Crime and Punishment: Corruption, Mass Violence, Genocide, Capital
Punishment.
8. Development and Social Progress.
9. Gender Discrimination: Female Foeticide, Land and Property Rights;
Empowerment.
10. Caste Discrimination: Gandhi and Ambedkar

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Philosophy Syllabus
PAPER-II

Section B - Philosophy of Religion:y


1. Notions of God: Attributes; Relation to Man and the World. (Indian and
Western).
2. Proofs for the Existence of God and their Critique (Indian and Western).
3. Problem of Evil.
4. Soul: Immortality; Rebirth and Liberation.
5. Reason, Revelation, and Faith.
6. Religious Experience: Nature and Object (Indian and Western).
7. Religion without God.
8. Religion and Morality.
9. Religious Pluralism and the Problem of Absolute Truth.
10. Nature of Religious Language: Analogical and Symbolic; Cognitivist and
Non- cognitive.

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